Tuesday, 26 March 2013

A Street Cat Named Bob is an inspirational story about second chances.This book provides a lot of insight into how we as a society choose to ignore people who are homeless and unemployed.We don’t view them as people who have stories and feelings.We see them from a different view through this book.Bob the cat provides humour and a sense of relief for both his companion and the reader.It is a fabulous book and strongly recommended.

A Street Cat Named Bob is a very good book to read.It’s about how a man and his cat found hope on the streets.This is a book written by James Bowen and the book is aimed at all ages able to read it.It is a No 1 best seller.“Heart-warming tale with a message of hope” the Daily Mail said.“An insight into the injustice of life on the streets that’s by turns frustrating and life-affirming” said Tom Cox, in The Times.The book is also available as an ebook.But overall the book is a good read – that’s from a personal view anyway.

Monday, 25 March 2013

The
competition has now closed.We have had
an excellent response and will be sifting through all the entries and
announcing the winners after Easter.There were lots of excellent suggestions for books that we must read; among
the most popular titles were the Harry Potter books, Hunger Games, Diary of a
Wimpy Kid and books by Jacqueline Wilson.

Friday, 22 March 2013

We had a great response to the launch of our new books in the Discovery library.The students we invited to the preview events were impressed to hear about the librarians winning £1,000 worth of books for the school, enjoyed the free prize draw and did lots of browsing and borrowing.

Congratulations to the top borrowers from Years 7, 8 and 9, who won books, stationery and vouchers.

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

CILIP’s Carnegie Medal is awarded each year for an outstanding book for children and young people.The Carnegie shortlist this year includes eight excellent books, most of which are available now in the WML and Discovery libraries and the rest are on order.Particular favourites of the Librarians are the debut novel Wonder by P.D. Palacio and Greyhound of a Girl by well loved author Roddy Doyle.To find out more about the books that have been shortlisted go to Carnegie and Greenaway shortlist page.

The winner will be announced in June 2013.

Carnegie shortlist taken from the Carnegie and Greenaway Shadowing site

Friday, 8 March 2013

Today (8th March) is International Women’s Day, celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.It can be traced back to the Suffragettes, who campaigned for women’s right to vote.

Darren Shan, author of the popular Saga of Darren Shan and Demonata novels, will be at Waterstones, The Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley on Tuesday 19th March at 5pm.He will be signing copies of City, the eagerly anticipated third instalment of his Zom-B series.You can find the first two Darren Shan series in the Discovery Library and his new series is on order and will be available soon!

Monday, 4 March 2013

World Book Day is a day set aside each year to celebrate reading, books, authors and illustrators.This year it takes place on Thursday 7th March.We have distributed special World Book Day tokens to each pupil, with the exception of the Post 16 pupils who can collect one from the War Memorial Library on request.These vouchers can either be exchanged at your local book shop for one of the World Book Day books or they can be used to get £1 off any book costing £2.99 or more.You can use your voucher in any participating books shop from 25th February to 24th March 2013.